The True Transformer--Jesus Christ

When the Romans soldiers came to arrest Jesus, the disciples were outnumbered. When they seized Jesus and arrested him, Peter must have thought, well it’s time to put up or shut up. I said, "I’d die and go to jail for Him, so here it is."

Peter pulled out his sword, and started the battle to free Jesus. He swished his sword and struck, Malchus , the servant of the high priest. He cut the guy’s right ear off right off.

But instead of hearing "a way to go to Peter from Jesus", Peter heard, "put away your sword, if I needed help, I’ve got 72,00 angles at my disposal."

Jesus, just again to show to the world, He’s the God of Transfromation, reaches over to Malchus who came to arrest him, and and takes his bloody ear and puts it back in place and takes away the pain, the scar and everything else. Now that’s what I call transforming love for your enemies.

At this point Jesus’ words were fulfilled and all of them took off and deserted him. Peter found out, he did not understand Jesus as well as he had first thought.

He was not sure of what Jesus was trying to accomplish. He had been willing to lay down his life for Him, and Jesus had shown no appreciation for it whatsoever.

My friends, there is a danger in thinking we are smart enough to fully understand God and God’s ways. Even God’s ways in our own lives. God is at work in ways we do not see, ways we do not understand, and ways in which we cannot know.

Yet I know, when failure or disaster, or unexpected losses come into our lives, our lives are not over. God is a TransformingGod, and we can go on.

Peter did not think Satan could sift him as hard as he did, but Satan did and it left him ready to walk away from Jesus. Just hours before, he was one of the most committed and devoted followers of Jesus Christ. But a fall can come so quickly in our lives if we are not careful. Peter followed Jesus at a distance to see what would happen to him.

While he was sitting there in the courtyard trying to blend in with crowd a servant girl came up to him and said, "You also were with Jesus of Galilee." Peter tried to shrug it off by saying, "Who, me. I don’t know what you’re talking about."

Before anyone else could question him, Peter got up and walked to the entranceway to the courtyard. For the first time in at least four years, Peter denies ever being with Jesus.

Once he got to the entrance and stood there, another young lady saw him and said, "Hey this fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth. I recognize him as one of the twelve."

Who knows perhaps she was there when Peter helped Jesus feed the 5,000 or when Jesus rose Lazarus from the dead, or when Peter came down from the mountain top with Jesus. But again Peter tried to fake it by saying, "I don’t know the man." I find it interesting he didn’t say, I don’t know Jesus.

But Peter made a deadly mistake. He kept running his mouth. Trying to be one of the guys. In running his mouth, he gave away his Galilean accent.